{"id":8126,"date":"2024-08-31T22:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8126"},"modified":"2024-08-31T22:56:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:11:22","slug":"mpox-may-enter-nepal-but-still-no-need-to-be-panic-dr-pun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/mpox-may-enter-nepal-but-still-no-need-to-be-panic-dr-pun\/","title":{"rendered":"Mpox may enter Nepal, but still no need to be panic: Dr Pun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kirtipur (Kathmandu), Aug 31: Public health expert Dr Sher Bahadr Pun has cautioned towards potential entry of communicable diseases anywhere in the country through the means of travel.<br \/>\nTaking part in a health-related programme in Kathmandu today, Dr Pun said Mpox (monkey pox) presently spread in Africa and the European countries may arrive in Nepal.&#8221;There is no situation to be confident that we are totally and will be untouched by the pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said that medical experiences to date say that Mpox is not as deadly as COVID-19. In medical assessment, it is an infection on the skin like chicken pox.<\/p>\n<p>Mpox, the viral infection that was first detected among monkeys in 1958, was first diagnosed in a nine-year-old boy in Congo in 1970. So far it has spread in 40 countries in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirtipur (Kathmandu), Aug 31: Public health expert Dr Sher Bahadr Pun has cautioned towards potential entry of communicable diseases anywhere in the country through the means of travel. Taking part in a health-related programme in Kathmandu today, Dr Pun said Mpox (monkey pox) presently spread in Africa and the European countries may arrive in Nepal.&#8221;There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8129,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions\/8129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}